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Xcel Energy Xcel Energy has abandoned plans to have Colorado ratepayers pay for expensive dinners and luxury hotel stays for its employees.
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Smith International closes sale of 28M shares
Oilfield services company Smith International Inc. said Monday it sold 28 million new shares of stock at $26.50 per share.
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Husky Energy discovers more oil in White Rose area
Husky Energy Inc said it discovered additional oil resources in the White Rose area located off Canadaa s East Coast.
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Kinder Morgan Expects to Pay $4.40 Annual Dividend
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP said Monday that it expects to pay out an annual cash dividend of $4.40 per unit in 2010, up from $4.20 in 2009.
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Utility to store air underground to generate power
An Ohio electric company has bought the rights to an abandoned limestone mine so it can pump the cavern full of compressed air and let it out to generate power during peak-use times.
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Energy conservation calendar winners announced
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Henry to compete for theatre awards
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PPL Electric Utilities announced a project Friday to improve electric service for customers throughout the Susquehanna Valley.
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CenterPoint and FPL Turning Attention to Louisiana Natural Gas
A subsidiary of CenterPoint Energy Inc. and NextEra US Gas Assets LLC, an affiliate of FPL Group Inc.
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Heritage and Eni close to $1.5 bln Uganda deal
British oil explorer Heritage Oil is in talks to sell its Ugandan assets to Italian oil group Eni SpA for between $1.3-1.5 billion, a person familiar with the matter said today.
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Pa. residents sue gas driller over polluted drinking water
Pat Farnelli says there's something in the water at her house. The last time she drank it, she says, she vomited four times.
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Commodities drag TSX lower as US$ climbs; N.Y. negative on earns disappointments
People using mobile phones walk by a securities firm's electronic board indicating global stock prices in Tokyo.
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Latin American art fair in the Big Apple
The only art fair in the United States featuring works exclusively from Latin American artists is under way in New York and drawing artists, collectors and museum representatives from around the world to the PINTA art fair.
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Astronauts finish another spacewalk, still no baby
A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday.
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Obama administration pauses on Alaska drilling
The Obama administration has delayed a decision on a request by Shell Oil Co. to drill for oil and gas in Alaska's rugged Chukchi Sea.
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Indiana regulators approve heating assistance
Consumer advocates say they're encouraged by state regulators' decision to allow Indiana utilities to reinstate heating assistance programs for the needy, but the next step is up to the utilities.
Nebraska ethanol plant fire produces lawsuit
The owners of a Lexington ethanol plant and their insurer are suing a subsidiary of a Houston-based natural gas provider they say is responsible for an explosion and fire that shut down the plant for weeks.
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Nissan Unveils New Electric Car In San Diego
Nissan unveiled its Leaf electric vehicle today at San Diego Gas & Electric's Kearny Mesa headquarters.
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